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News The nanoparticles were designed to effectively hold the drug and then gradually collapse, releasing it into nearby tissue ... Contributed Author: Columbia University Medical Center

News This advancement can help in delivering drugs ... Staff Author: Lexie Metzler

News Professor Kushki and her colleagues developed the app, named Holli, to be used with wearable technology such as Google Glass ... Contributed Author: Frontiers

News Among other precautions, the test was conducted away from populated areas in restricted airspace at an unpopulated military test range that was cleared of other air traffic ... Contributed Author: Phys.org

Perry Pezzarossi of Mandeville left for a trip to Salt Lake City on Aug. 22. It'll be no vacation. He's traveling to Utah's picturesque capital city where he will get his right arm cut off below the elbow. In a way, he's...

The staff of a Pennsylvania hospital were cited after photographs and videos of a patient's genitals circulated among staff members. The patient was under anesthesia when the photos and videos were taken.

After steadily declining for over a decade, global hunger is on the rise again, affecting 815 million people in 2016, or 11 per cent of the global population, says a new edition of the annual United Nations report on wor...

(BfR Federal Institute for Risk Assessment) Just under 60 percent of the German population view undesirable substances in food as a high or very high health risk. The most well-known of these substances, which are scient...

(University of Cambridge) Funding cuts and austerity measures are damaging young people's access to mental health services, with potentially long-term consequences for their mental wellbeing, say researchers at the Unive...

(IOS Press) Obu, Japan, September 15, 2017 - A new study from the Multimodal Neuroimaging for AD Diagnosis (MULNIAD) study, which is a prospective study implemented at the National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology (...

(University of Montreal) A majority of Canadians over 65 think 'deprescribing' should be a national government priority .

(Northeastern University) A new study shows unequivocally that stem cells in the ovaries are a critical piece of the mammal fertility puzzle, and may be harnessed to revolutionize fertility treatments and perhaps even de...

(Children's National Health System) A child with non-traumatic abdominal pain, a common symptom of appendicitis, is more likely to receive a computed tomography (CT) scan in a general emergency department (ED) than if he...

(KU Leuven) Insects and plants have an important ancient defense mechanism that helps them to fight viruses. This is encoded in their DNA. Scientists have long assumed that vertebrates -- including humans -- also had thi...

(University of Adelaide) Researchers from the University of Adelaide have found a new link between the brain's immune system and the desire to drink alcohol in the evening.

(Children's National Health System) Parents whose children have lengthy stays in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) dream of one day taking their baby home. But the actual day of NICU discharge can be an overwhelmin...

(Children's National Health System) As mannequins go, preemie Hal is on the top of his game. Because he's not real, that's where Hal and mannequins like him fall short, Children's National Health System researchers expla...

(Florida Atlantic University) Only seven states in the US have mandatory paid sick leave laws; yet, 15 states have passed preemptive legislation prohibiting localities from passing sick leave. Paid sick leave is gaining ...

(Keystone Symposia on Molecular & Cellular Biology) Keystone Symposia is holding the second conference in its 2017-2018 Global Health Series entitled 'Maternal-Fetal Crosstalk: Harmony vs. Conflict' Oct. 4-8, 2017 in Was...

(Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center) In collaboration with Novo Biosciences, Inc., LSU Health New Orleans Cardiovascular Center of Excellence will receive more $500,000 over two years to study the effectiv...

(NIH/National Institute of Mental Health) Three interventions designed for follow up of patients who are identified with suicide risk in hospital emergency departments save lives and are cost effective relative to usual ...

(Washington University School of Medicine) More than half of the states in the US now allow some type of legal marijuana use, primarily medical marijuana. But, in a survey of medical residents and deans at the nation's m...